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         % rm -i God
         rm: remove God? y
         % ls God
         God not found
         % make light
         Make: Don't know how to make light. Stop.

                        -- Fun with UNIX, Charlie Gibbs

          :hacker: /n./ [originally,  someone who makes  furniture with an
      axe] 1. A person  who enjoys  exploring the  details of programmable
      systems   and  how  to  stretch   their   capabilities,  as  opposed
      to most  users,  who  prefer to learn  only the  minimum  necessary.
      2. One  who  programs  enthusiastically  (even  obsessively)  or who
      enjoys  programming  rather than just theorizing about  programming.
      3. A  person  capable  of  appreciating  {hack  value}.  4. A person
      who is  good at  programming  quickly.  5. An expert at a particular
      program,  or one  who  frequently  does  work  using  it  or on  it;
      as in  'a  Unix  hacker'.  (Definitions 1 through 5 are  correlated,
      and  people  who  fit  them  congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast
      of any  kind.  One  might be an astronomy  hacker,  for  example. 7.
      One who enjoys the intellectual  challenge of creatively  overcoming
      or  circumventing  limitations. 8. [deprecated] A malicious  meddler
      who tries to discover  sensitive information by poking around. Hence
      'password hacker', 'network hacker'. The correct term for this sense
      is cracker.

          The  term  'hacker'  also  tends to  connote  membership  in the
      global  community  defined  by  the  net  (see  {network,  the}  and
      {Internet  address}). It also  implies that the person  described is
      seen to subscribe to some  version of the hacker  ethic (see hacker
      ethic).

          It  is  better  to  be  described  as a hacker  by  others  than
      to describe oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves  something
      of an elite (a meritocracy  based on ability),  though  one to which
      new  members  are  gladly  welcome.  There  is  thus a  certain  ego
      satisfaction to be had in identifying  yourself as a hacker  (but if
      you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled bogus).

                          -- New Hacker's Dictionary


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